MaXimillion_Zero

Everything apart for torrent and life drain is good.

Dark pit should be especially nice for a kin, since you'll be running stacked siphon speed. You'll be able to perma-stun minions, and if you get the psi epic you'll be able to hold a few lieuts and bosses. Add TT to that to keep the stunned minions from walking away, and you'll be able to nicely lock down small/medium spawns.

I believe the steel canyon note refers to the fact that you can no longer fly over the war walls, then under the zone, and into the university. (Not to mention the fact that while under steel, you could fire at mobs without them being able to shoot back, thus earning riks-free XP on any L10-20 char with flight)

As for FF and Croatoa, no idea.

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Elude has psionic def too, but you won't evade a carnie hold on elude, try and see . I know it's supposed to be psionic, but, either it's untyped or there isn't psy defense at all in the game.

[/ QUOTE ]Actually, elude only gives melee, ranged and AoE defence. It's quite possible that carnioe holds are tagged as sionic type, but not any position, and since elude doesn't give any typed defence, they go straight through it.

Can't see why KD wouldn't be useful soloing, it's a great soft control, and works well even on bosses.

Anyways, my personal preference at the moment is TA/Psi, huge -rech, two powers with -res, good damage blasts, lots of nice debuffs, only issue is lack of self heal which can be countered with aid self.

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but against a +7 boss

[/ QUOTE ]Why on earth were you fighting a +7 boss?

First off, you should get the power numbers from NoFuture. After that, you should propably calculate the DPS for each attack with 1 recharge and 3 dam, and with 2 recharge and 2 dam, as well as sort the powers for their DPA (Damage per animation).

After that you could make up attack chains with both slottings, constructing the sets so that you'll be attacking non-stop, and repeating your highest DPA attacks as often as possible. Then just compare the damage each chain does over, say, 30 seconds.

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But besides that (and PvP) enemies will have a hard time pushing through your mezz protection.

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Oh and I have seen more than one other EN/Fire brute, its an odd combo cause AoE Sec with ST prime but hey it works alright

[/ QUOTE ]Not that odd, with both FE and BU it's the best burst damage brute possible.

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Well I'd free up the slots people would usually put into the Fitness Pool, so the new powers would get those........it's not rocket science

[/ QUOTE ]People usually put two slots into fitness (To get 3 in stamina), and nothing else, that's hardly enough to slot most combinations of 3 powers

It's only worth it if you're very close to the DEF cap, which, as fire/fire, you won't be.

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"1. AOE Heals will not root
2. Self Buffs will not root
3. Self Heals will not root
4. Everything else will."


so... pretty much every kin power will root you... except transfusion. ah well, there go my dreams of reapplying IR mid jump

[/ QUOTE ]Transfusion WILL root you, since it affects an enemy. IR shouldn't, since it's a self buff.

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But surely IR is an PBAoE Buff, not simply a Self Buff?

So doesn't that put it back into the rooting category?

[/ QUOTE ]PBAoE buff toggles (Dispersion field, shadow fall, tactics) are not supposed to root, so it would be logical for it to work same way for clickies.

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"1. AOE Heals will not root
2. Self Buffs will not root
3. Self Heals will not root
4. Everything else will."


so... pretty much every kin power will root you... except transfusion. ah well, there go my dreams of reapplying IR mid jump

[/ QUOTE ]Transfusion WILL root you, since it affects an enemy. IR shouldn't, since it's a self buff.

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Taking acrobatics for a kinetic is a wasted power slot IMO as it achieves little more than hover with some serious drawbacks: it is noticeably more expensive endu-wise than hover

[/ QUOTE ]0.06 EPS is hardly noticeable.

If you don't want to be able to deal damage, take dark. If you do, take psi or sonic.

Would never go without taunt for a stoner, since theiy're so gimped that they need it

Also don't usually fight astuff higher than +3's so reduced power effectiviness isn't that much of a problem, CE works just fine for all my aggro grabbing needs on my ice tank (Although it's not quite as good now that it doesn't have the near-instant tickrate anymore, but it still holds all the aggro needed.)

Well, my plan was to respec to SS+CD after getting trip mine. But I took smoke grenade at 30 to test it, and found it suprisingly useful for toebombing with trip mines. It's definitely a viable alternative for SS, if not quite as fast for ghosting.

I'll propably be either rerolling my L8 Claws/DA (Or maybe exemplaring until we hit that level, since he has freespec and some cossie tokens in store), or rolling a BS/ or Katana/, propably with /regen.

You'll be better off with all-/rad team

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Has anyone else seen anything like this, in Fire or other Blaster sets?

[/ QUOTE ]Not spesifically for fire, but whatever powers you're using some mobs tend to run away every now and then.

Mondays-Thursdays am free from noon to 8 PM.
Fridays am free from noon 'till around 2 hours past midnight.
Saturdays am free from 10 AM to past midnight
Sundays am free from 10 AM to 8 PM.

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Blazing Aura I will argue against though. It lacks the gauntlet component of a Fire Tank's PBAoE. Mobs tend to run from such effects in my experience unless there is a reason for them to stay.

[/ QUOTE ]What power are you basing this on? Because if it's hot feet, foes run from it because the power has a 4 second "Afraid" component applied when it hits. Blazing aura doesn't have that.

It's in union heroes, so I'd guess union

(Plus, I dont have slots on defiant)

Sign me up as a scrapper.

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Would it be be just 7 toons, one of each AT, with no partiuclar restraint on powerset choices, or did you mean something more complicated to evaulate the effectiveness.

[/ QUOTE ]No powerset restrictions.

I'm thinking of rolling a controller or scrapper, not sure which yet though. Also, would be up for starting earlier than 8PM as well, if everyone else is fine with that.

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I have also taken great care to choose powers that do not scatter enemies. There seems little point in having any AoE's if your early attacks spread the bad guys out too much for them to effective. For that reason, I have not taken Rain of Fire, Blazing Aura, Combustion and will not take Burn or Hot Feet, all of which can cause enemy groups to scatter.

[/ QUOTE ]Combustion is PBAoE clicky damage power, like FSC, it shouldn't scatter. And blazing aura shouldn't have any scatter effect either, I believe.